May 24, 2022
QUOTE
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
--Bob Dylan
BIRTHDAYS
1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale
1938 – Tommy Chong, Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1941 – Bob Dylan, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, actor and producer.
1945 – Priscilla Presley, Actress and businesswoman
1955 – Rosanne Cash, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – John C. Reilly, Actor
IN MEMORY
1153 – David I of Scotland
1908 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect
2008 – Dick Martin, Actor, comedian, and director
IN ON THIS DAY
1607 – One hundred and five English settlers established the colony called Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the Virginia coast, the first permanent English colony in America.
1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1941 – The German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.